This newly found protein, essential to our vision is named Pikachurin after the famed Pokemon character Pikachu. It was found by a team of 18 researchers at the Department of Developmental Biology, Osaka Bioscience Institute in Japan.
Pikachurin is essential in forming precise reactions between protoreceptor ribbon synapses and bipolar dendrites and without it, the images would travel from our eyes to our brain three times slower.
The name Pikachurin was inspired by Pikachu's lightning fast moves and shocking electric effects. Interesting isn't it?
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